প্রকাশ: 15/08/2022
The nation is observing the National Mourning Day and 47th
martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
today, Monday (August 15) in a befitting manner with due respect and solemnity.
Bangabandhu and most of his family members were brutally
killed by some disgruntled army men on the fateful night of August 15, 1975 and
this carnage is touted as the ugliest chapter of the nation’s history.
Father of the Nation's two daughters Sheikh Hasina, now
Prime Minister, and Sheikh Rehana escaped the planned assassination as they
were staying abroad.
The government has drawn up elaborate programmes in
observance of the day at national level.
The national flag will be hoisted half-mast in all
government, semi-government, autonomous institutions, educational institutions
and private buildings including Bangladesh missions abroad, said a handout
earlier.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
will pay homage to Bangabandhu, the architect of the independent Bangladesh, by
placing wreaths at his portrait at 6.30 am in front of Bangabandhu Memorial
Museum at Dhanmondi Road No-32 in the capital.
A guard of honor will be given by the armed forces and
prayers will be offered there.
The Prime Minister will also place wreaths at the Banani
Graveyard on the graves of the family members of Bangabandhu and other martyrs
who were brutally killed on August 15, 1975.
She will also offer Fateha and munajat seeking eternal peace
of the departed souls of the martyrs.
Special doa and munajat will be offered at mosques across
the country including Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Zuhr prayers.
Special prayers will also be offered at temples, churches, pagodas and other
places of prayers across the country.
Special supplement will be published in national dailies and
periodicals highlighting the importance of the day.
The Department of Films and Publications (DFP) has published
posters for distribution across the country. Posters in English have already
been dispatched to Bangladesh diplomatic missions abroad.
The Department of Mass Communication will screen documentary
films on the life and works of Bangabandhu across the country. The Press
Information Department (PID) will organize a weeklong photo exhibition at the
Bangladesh Secretariat. Regional Information Offices under PID will also
arrange photo exhibitions at divisional level.
Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television will broadcast
special programme.
All educational institutions including public and private
schools, madrasas, colleges and universities will arrange discussions, poem
recitation, essay writing and painting competition, art exhibition, hamd-naat
competition and doa mahfil.
In line with the national programmes, discussion, doa mahfil
and other programmes will also be held at the district and upazila levels. The
government officials must join the events.
All city corporations, municipalities and union parishads of
the country will arrange programmes to mark the day.
The programme of Dhanmondi and Banani in the capital and Tungipara
in Gopalganj will be broadcast live on Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh
Television.
Other private television channels, FM radio and community
radio will also broadcast the programme live in association with Bangladesh
Betar and Bangladesh Television.
Bangladesh missions abroad will also hoist the national flag
half-mast and organize discussions marking the day.
Awami League (AL) has also drawn up programmes to mark the
martyrdom anniversary of Bangabandhu and the National Mourning Day.
National and party flags will be kept at half-mast and black
flags will be hoisted atop all AL offices across the country including
Bangabandhu Bhaban and central office during the sunrise.
AL leaders and workers will pay glowing tributes to
Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait on the premises of Bangabandhu
Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi road number 32 here at 6am.
Tributes will also be laid to other martyrs of August 15 by
placing wreaths at their graves in Banani graveyard at 8am. Special munajat,
offering of Fateha, mazar ziarat and milad mahfil will also be held there.
A delegation of Awami League Central Working Committee,
Gopalganj district and Tungipara upazila units of the party will pay homage to
Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his mausoleum at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 12
noon. Fateha offering, milad and doa mahfil will be arranged there.
On August 16, a discussion will be arranged at Bangabandhu
International Conference Centre (BICC) on the occasion of the National Mourning
Day at 4.30pm.
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair it.
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